Author: Sir William SandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles
Author: Sir William SandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles from His Cradle to His Grave
Author: William SandersonSources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689
Author: Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library
Author: The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690
Author: John D. StainesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall. In following the retellings of her history from her lifetime through the revolutions and political experiments of the seventeenth century, this study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican. Staines provides new readings of Spenser and Milton, as well as of early modern dramatists, to compile a comprehensive study of the writings about this important historical and literary figure. He charts developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, using the emotional representations of the life of this tragic woman and queen to explore early modern experiments in addressing and moving a public audience. By exploring the writing and rewriting of the tragic histories of the Queen of Scots, this book reveals the importance of literature as a force in the redefinition of British political life between 1560 and 1690.
The history and pedigree of the portrait of prince Charles, afterwards Charles i., painted by Velasquez in 1623 [by J. Snare].
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Author: John SnareDictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
James Harrington
Author: Rachel HammersleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192537873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1642, to put the case for commonwealth government, and to offer a detailed constitutional blueprint for a new and successful English government. In this intellectual biography of Harrington, Rachel Hammersley sets a fresh analysis of this and Harrington's other writings against the background of his life and the turbulent period in which he lived. In doing so, this study seeks to move beyond the conventional view of Harrington as primarily a republican thinker, offering a broader and more comprehensive account of him which addresses the complexity of his republicanism as well as exploring his contributions to economic, historical, religious, philosophical, and scientific debates; his experimentation with vocabulary and literary form; and the relationship between his life and thought. Harrington is presented as an innovative political thinker, committed to democracy, social mobility, and meritocracy. Ultimately, this broader examination of Harrington's life and work opens a window on political, economic, religious, and scientific issues which serve to complicate understandings of the English Revolution, and sheds fresh light on the relevance of seventeenth-century ideas to the modern world.
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque
Author: J. KnowlesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137432012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.